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Show Just Folks By EDGAR A. GUEST WE INTERRUPT f "We Interrupt the program!" all day long we heard the cry, "To announce that England's bravest hsve been ordered out to die! "We Interrupt the program !" and the merry music stopped, "To announce on frightened people peo-ple bombs of death are being dropped." In our happy, peaceful country this we heard the whole day long, Stopping morning prayer and sermon, noonday talk and evening song, "We interrupt the program!" so that all the world may hear The sirens telling London German Ger-man planes are drawing near." "We Interrupt the program !" and I thought how wise the phrase! That's what war has done for ages in a thousand dreadful ways. Art and faith and skill and science all have had their dreams delayed And their programs interrupted while a war was being made. Song has ceased and mirth has ended, from the useful forge and loom Men are called to fill the trenches In the senseless fields of doom. Now this hateful Interruption falls upon the world again. Destroying and delaying all the nobler aims of men. |